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Daniel Ramirez

Daniel Ramirez is an affordable housing and community development professional living in Washington, D.C. He worked for the Calvert Foundation managing a portfolio of loans to CDFIs and developers. Daniel graduated from Macalester College with a B.A. in mathematics and minor in Hispanic studies.

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Despite the challenges, financial institutions can still work to understand the shape of their impact. One promising way is to organize activities around an issue, creating a social lens through which to contextualize and focus investing. From there, an organization can determine how they’re best able to address the issue, which in turn determines appropriate investing filters and social performance metrics. The case of investing through a gender lens is an encouraging example of this strategy, where investing organizes around women’s economic empowerment and access to quality healthcare.